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Crime
Car Thief Leaves Court Papers In Stolen Car, Drives Second Stolen Car To Police Headquarters
Bond Set At $100,000 For Teenager Linked To Murder Case
Person Of Interest Sought In Strip Club Shooting
JERMAINE FAISON .....shot sitting inside his car early Sunday morning.
BRAELEN ADAMS .....shot sitting inside his SUV in December 2014.
EZEKIEL MARC ... Bond set at $75,000
KYRA RIELLE CUADRADO ... Bond set at $100,000
EION GUSTITIS 8/13/1997 --- 9/6/201
A Hillsborough County judge set a bond for a teenager linked to the murder of a high school student. She was arrested Wednesday, September 30th, and was originally being held without bond.
Hillsborough County Judge John N. Conrad set the bond for Kyra Rielle Cuadrado, 16, at $100,000 last Friday. She was charged with accessory after the fact of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Eion Gustitis.
The body of the 18-year-0ld Freedom High School senior was found in the 9700 block of Commerce Street, in New Tampa on September 6th. Gustitis, 18, had been shot in the upper body.
Police also arrested Ezekiel Marc, 20, on September 29th, and charged him with acces- sory after the fact of an armed robbery with a firearm. His bond remains set at $75,000.
Police said that as a result of interviews with Gustitis’ friends and acquaintances, they have determined that Gustitis was allegedly sus- pected of stealing someone’s cell phone and approximately 10 grams of marijuana while at a party.
The person whose property was stolen allegedly asked Cuadrado and two others to “take care of it.”
On September 5, Marc is
said to have picked up Gusti- tis at his apartment and drove him to a residence at 9711 Com- merce Street.
Sometime late September 5 or early September 6, a person known to Cuadrado and Marc got out of the car with Gustitis, and after a few min- utes, he returned to the car with Gustitis’ shorts and money, stating. “It’s done; let’s go.” Marc was given $30 or $40 of the money taken from the victim, police said.
Cuadrado later told detec- tives that she threw the murder weapon, as well as a box of bul- lets, in a lake to prevent police from finding it. On September 15, the Tampa Police Depart- ment Dive Team recovered a box of .22 caliber bullets from the lake. The next day the dive team recovered a Jennings .22 caliber pistol from the lake.
An autopsy determined that Gustitis was shot with a .22 caliber bullet.
Police believe the suspect is someone known to Kyra Cuadrado.
Police have not charged Cuadrado or Marc with Gustitis’ murder. However, the investigation is continuing. Both were being held at the Hillsborough County Jail at press time.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Crime Stoppers where they can pro- vide information anonymously.
On Tuesday, detectives with the Tampa Police Department released images of a man they are calling a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a man last weekend at a strip club.
According to police, Jer- maine Faison, 32, was shot Sunday morning as he sat in a blue Maserati in the rear park- ing lot of the PlayPen Strip Club, 1715 North 50th Street. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Detectives said prior to the shooting, a man walked into the club and also had been seen with Faison inside the Maserati when the shooting occurred.
In the images released by detectives, the man can be seen standing near what ap- pears to be a metal detector in- side the club’s entrance. He has a goatee and his hair is in dreadlocks. Detectives also said the shooting may have been drug related.
Anyone with information about the identity of this man is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-8477.
This is the second murder to occur at the strip club in less than a year.
In December 2014, Brae- len Adams, 23, was shot to deathashesatinanSUVin the parking lot of the PlayPen Club.
A young man identified as Tre Woods, 20, went to the club that night with Adams, and the two had been friends for 9 years, and were room- mates at one point.
Woods told police he was in the restroom when the
Person of interest in the Sunday morning shooting death of Jermaine Faison.
shooting happened, and he ran outside to find Adams shot, but still alive. He told police he thought it was a robbery gone bad, because his friends’ gold chains were missing.
Faison’s mother, Ms. Re- becca Faison, said her son had no children, but did have six siblings.
Ms. Faison said her son al- ways talked about being a business owner, and she last spoke to him the Saturday be- fore the shooting.
“Because of my involvement with my church, we didn’t see each other that much. We mostly talked over the phone.
“One thing I can say about Jermaine is he always took me out to dinner on a holiday.”
Ms. Faison said Jer- maine wasn’t much of a talker, and she would have to pull the words out of him.
“I did talk to him a lot about the dangers that young men his age face every day, and for him to be careful.”
Aiken’s Funeral Home is as- sisting the family with arrangements for a service.
CARNELL EUGENE BUTLER
St. Petersburg Police ar- rested an 18-year-old man and charged him with two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle, violation of probation, and two counts of burglary of an occu- pied dwelling. Police said all of the offenses occurred in the Placido Bayou neighborhood.
According to police, Carnell Eugene Butler was already on probation for previously stealing a car in June.
Police said on October 4th, officers recovered an aban- doned Infiniti that had been left near 13th Avenue, South and 18th Street, South. The car had been reported stolen by the owner, and officers found per- sonal items and a packet of court documents that belonged to Butler. At that time officers tried, but failed to locate But- ler.
On October 6th, Butler re- portedly stole a vehicle from a home in the Placido Bayou area. Detectives contacted a rel- ative at Butler’s home and left a message for him.
Butler called the detective back, and arranged to come to headquarters to pick up per- sonal items from his June ar- rest. When he arrived, detectives arrested him and found the keys to a stolen vehi- cle in his pocket. That vehicle was found parked a block away from Police Headquarters, and detectives discovered Butler had driven it to the police de- partment.
Officers also found a stolen bicycle at Butler’s home.
Juror In Buju Banton Trial Found Guilty Of Misconduct
A juror in the trial of reggae star Buju Banton has been found guilty of misconduct.
Terri Wright was sen- tenced to five months of proba- tion and 40 hours of community service.
Judge James S. Moody
has reportedly assigned her to write a research paper on how much a six-day trial costs tax- payers and the impact juror misconduct has on the system. In 2011, Wright was part of a federal jury in Tampa that found Banton guilty of drug conspiracy and firearms charges.
The same judge who sen- tenced Banton to 10 years in prison told Wright today that she willfully violated his order not to research the case.
The allegation that Wright had researched the case first
BUJU BANTON
came to light following the trial, when she was interviewed by a newspaper reporter.
Wright told the reporter that when testimony ended each day, she returned to her car, wrote down notes to keep things fresh in her mind, then went home and researched the case.
An audio recording of that interview was played in court.
Son Claims His Mom Beat Him Over Bad Grades
On Tuesday, a woman was arrested after police said she beat her son with a belt and punched him in the face over the results of his report card.
Sarah Dennis, 25, was ar- rested and accused of attacking her 12-year-old son when he came home with “F” grades on his report card.
Police tell local media that Dennis ordered her son to take his clothes off, except for his underwear, and then beat him with a belt before punch- ing his left eye with a closed fist several times.
Police said the boy was forced to speak with his school guid- ance counselor after teachers
SARAH DENNIS
noticed his black eye.
Dennis reportedly told po-
lice she never punched her son. She said he received the black eye during a fist fight at school.
UNCLE SANDY SAYS...
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